Description: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln London Journal, 1865 This is a rare issue of The London Journal, published for the week ending on May 20, 1865. The Journals subheading describes it as The Weekly Record of Literature, Science and Art. It measures 9x12 inches in size and is 16 pages long. It is in excellent condition, andunlike many surviving publications from the 1860sit was never enclosed in a bound volume, so it remains in its exact original format. The London Journal primarily featured serialized fiction, and such stories take up the first 3/4ths of this issue, before printing any news of the day. The lead article in this non-fiction section of the paper is a lengthy report on the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, a tribute/eulogy on him, and a biography of Lincolns life; along with that of the new President, Andrew Johnson. This article takes up 31 column inches of text in small print. It is headlined: THE LATE AND PRESENT PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES. It begins: About the hour of half-past ten o'clock in the evening of the 14th of April last, Abraham Lincoln, the president of the United States, while sitting in his private box at Fords Theatre in the city of Washington with Mrs. Lincoln, a lady of the name of Harris, and Major Rathburn, was shot by an assassin, who, entering the box under a treacherous pretence of public business, approached him from behind, and discharged the pistol at his head. The bullet entered the back of his head, penetrating nearly through. The president fell to the floor insensible, and continued in that state until twenty minutes past seven o'clock the next morning, when he breathed his last. In thus commemorating the sudden and awful death of Lincoln we are reminded that, ever since he was elected to guide the destiny of the American Republic, assassins have panted for his life. When in the act of proceeding from his home in Illinois to assume the reins of office in the spring of 1861, he only escaped the dagger or the pistol-ball of the assassin at Baltimore by disguising himself as a countryman, and thus passing in safety by a night-train through that city to the White House in Washington. Following this is a long passage describing the deceased Presidents life in good detail right up till the Civil War, along with assessments of Lincolns physical presence, and his personality. Then it continues by giving more details of the conspiracy to assassinate the President: The rest of the President's life if we were to write it, would really be little less than the history of the fearful and fatal war, which has laid waste to America for the last four years. The chief event in it, perhaps, is the re-election of Abraham Lincoln to the presidential chair last summer. At that time, as will be remembered, the leaders of the Abolition party seemed bent on withdrawing from him their support. He was, however, so firmly rooted in the affections of the mass of the electors, who identified him with the Union cause, that it was deemed unwise to bring forward a rival Republican candidate. Had that party become divided, as seemed probable at one time, General MClellan would certainly have been returned. Thanks to the forbearance and foresight of the Abolitionists, Mr. Lincoln was elected by a triumphant majority, with full powers to control the destinies of those States, at least, which had elected him for a new term of four years. Man proposes, but God disposes. Within a few short months the assassins pistol has sat aside the wishes of the Northern people, thrown transatlantic politics into the most sad confusion, and caused all New York to array itself and robes of black. The assassin is supposed to be, at the time we write, a man named J. Wilkes Booth. From a letter found in his trunk it is evident he had planned the assassination previous to 4th of March . . . . Either Booth himself, or an accomplice, also made an attempt the same evening on Mr. Seward, the principal Secretary of State. He presented himself at the door of Mr. Sewards residence, gained admission by representing he had a prescription from Mr. Sewards physician, which he was directed to see administered and hurried up to the third story chamber, where Mr. Seward was lying. He here discovered Mr. Frederick Seward, struck him over the head, inflicting several wounds and fractured the skull in two places, inflicting, it is feared mortal wounds. He then rushed into the room where Mr. Seward was in bed, attended by a young daughter and a male nurse. The male attendant was stabbed through the lungs, and it is believed will die. The assassin then strucj Mr. Seward with a knife or dagger twice in the throat and twice in the face, inflicting terrible wounds. By this time Major Seward, eldest son of the secretary, and another attendant, reached the room, and rushed to the rescue of the secretary; they were also wounded in the conflict, and the assassin escaped. No artery or important blood vessel was severed by any of the wound inflicted upon him; but he was for a long time insensible from the loss of blood. Some hope of his possible recovery is entertained. Immediately upon the death of the president, notice was given to Vice-President Johnson . . . . He was sworn in as president by Chief-Justice Chase, at eleven oclock the same morning. . . . The remainder of the article gives a short bio of Andrew Johnson, focusing mostly on his upbringing, and the years before he entered politics. _gsrx_vers_1680 (GS 9.8.3 (1680))
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